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Oxford Insight (OI) is a guided and curated learning environment (available in your school’s LMS or outside of it) that tightly integrates the best-in-class, trusted content of Understanding Human Communication, Fifteenth Edition, with online tools, gradable assessments, media resources, activities and exercises, and instructor analytics. Oxford Insight simplifies course management, drives student engagement, and improves student performance.  

Enhanced e-book

An enhanced e-book, organized by section, integrates Ronald Adler, George Rodman, and Athena du Pre’s engaging narrative with a rich assortment of video resources

Video Quizzes

Concept Animations, Explainer Videos, Sample Speeches, and more videos are paired with quizzes
to check students’ understanding of key concepts in communication

Understanding Your Communication Activities

These self-assessments invite students to evaluate and improve their communication skills and to
consider their identities as communicators

Section Quizzes

Matching and Review quizzes, organized by section, ensure that students are understanding
key terms, 
ideas, and concepts as they go 

Interactive Flashcards

Flashcards allow students to practice essential vocabulary terms

Public Speaking Practice Activities

These prompts for short speeches offer opportunities to practice public speaking in each chapter before
students reach the public speaking units. They incorporate the material from Interpersonal and Group Communication theory with the practice students need to overcome anxiety and learn key skills.

Chapter Review Quizzes

These quizzes enable students to quickly assess their understanding of the material

Gradebook / Data Insights  

Data insights in the gradebook show individual student performance, class engagement, success
achieving learning objectives, time on task, and more

Instructor Resources

Save time in course prep with valuable tools available for download on Oxford’s online Oxford Learning Link. Contact your Oxford University Press representative to request access. 


The Complete Guide to Teaching Communication, a supplement written by co-author Athena du Pre, helps teachers incorporate the book into their lessons with no extra effort. It provides a complete syllabus, teaching
tips, preparation checklists, grab-and-go lesson plans, high-impact learning activities, handouts, links to relevant video clips, and coordinating PowerPoint lecture slides. 


A Test Bank includes sixty exam questions per chapter in multiple-choice, short-answer, and essay formats.
The questions are labeled according to difficulty and include the page reference and chapter section where
the answers may be found. 


PowerPoint presentations for each chapter, including key concepts, video clips, discussion questions, and
other elements to engage students. They correspond to content in the lesson plans, making them ready to
use and fully editable so that preparing for class is faster and easier than ever.


Now Playing, Instructor’s Edition, includes an introduction to incorporating film and television segments in class, as well as video clips, viewing guides, sample responses, and an index by subject.


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